Our Mission

EnergyScoreCards Minnesota is a two-year effort to implement web-based energy and water benchmarking and tracking at multifamily buildings in Minnesota. Benchmarking compares a building's performance with that of similar buildings.

The project aims to demonstrate that engaging multifamily owners, property managers and tenants in actively managing energy use can measurably reduce utility spending, energy and water consumption and carbon emissions.

Review eligibility rules on the Participate page to verify that your buildings are eligible.

2) Download Building Survey

Download
the blank survey spreadsheet file. For each building survey you complete, save a version of the file to your computer with the name of
the property (e.g. Lakeview Apartments.xlsx).

3)Enter Building Information

On the Start tab, enter basic information about your building. Note that fields in green are required in
order to complete EnergyScoreCards benchmarking analysis on your building. You may submit surveys with incomplete
information in these required fields, but buildingswith complete and accurate
surveys will be given priority for participation in the pilot.

Critical or Very Important data fields on the Start tab include:

Building address

Total building square footage

# of units

# of bedrooms

Occupancy type

Building type

4)Define Utility Accounts

On the Accounts tab, list all utility accounts paid by the owner at
this building. Include electric, gas,
water/sewer, propane, oil or district steam accounts if applicable. In the
“Account Name” column, name each account to identify its use and location (e.g.
“Gas Heat”, “Building A Lights”).

Tip: If you do not see your
utility company on the drop-down list in column F, please select ‘Other’ and type
the name of your utility company column K.

Include all available utility account login information (account
number, login and password, meter number). Utility login information is
required and will allow EnergyScoreCards Minnesota to collect your historical
and current utility data - so you don’t have to. If you do not have an online login for a
utility account, please visit your utility company website to create one.

In the box titled “Utility Authorization” (to the right of the
accounts list), please include your name, and the date of completing the
survey.

If you have information about tenant-paid utility accounts and are
interested in tracking tenant utility consumption, you are welcome to include
these accounts. Although not required, buildings opting to track tenant data
will be given priority for selection in the pilot.

5)Enter Historical Utility Bills (optional)

On the Bills tab, you can enter historical utility bills. This step is
not required, as EnergyScoreCards will gather available utility billing and
consumption data from your utility website.
However, if you have historical utility data readily available in a form
that can be easily transferred into the spreadsheet, you are welcome to include
it.

For each bill you wish to enter, select the utility account from the
drop-down menu in column A and enter the bill date, consumption amount and cost
information on that row. All utility
accounts you have defined on the Accounts tab will appear in the
drop-down in column A. Note: You can enter bills from all accounts, any time
period in any order. Our software will sort this information by date and
account.

6)Define Apartment Types (optional) If you
are interested in tracking tenant apartment utility, define apartment types in
your building on the Apartment Types-Spaces tab. Define each major type of apartment (e.g. 1-
bedroom, 3-bedroom) in the table on the left. If you have entered tenant-paid
accounts on the accounts tab, use the table on the right to assign specific
accounts to apartment types.

7) Complete the “EnergyScoreCards Minnesota
Participant Agreement”

To be considered for participation your property owners or managers
must complete and return the EnergyScoreCards Minnesota Participant Agreement. The Participant Agreement assures EnergyScoreCards
Minnesota that the person submitting information is a representative of the
property owner or manager, and provides authorization for us to gather your
utility information for the duration of the pilot.

8)E-mail survey Excel file(s) and signed participant
agreement to minnesota@energyscorecards.com.

An EnergyScoreCards Minnesota representative
will contact you to confirm that we received your survey(s) and agreement. We
will also address any questions about the information you have provided. Complete
and accurate property surveys will be prioritized for participation!